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Help finding my son a new car
My sons 2000 Ford Explorer front wheel completely froze up and destroyed the brakes and there is a problem with the rear axle too. Repair cost is over $1000 and I'm not paying that. Time to look at a new car for him.
Who were the resident dealers on this site again? Here are the cars he is looking at. Any opinions would be great as I have had it with car shopping these last few years. http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/de...3293/overview/ http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/de...3293/overview/ http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/de...4780/overview/ http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/de...57067/overview http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/de...4677/overview/ |
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That, or simply driving waaaay too fast for the conditions. In my 30 years of driving I've only hydroplaned to the point where I didn't have control of the car one time, and that was when I hit a giant water puddle on a highway going 50-60 mph after a heavy rain. And even then, it didn't put me into the curb.
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Really depends on if it was a mountable curb or barrier curb and how high. Also angle at which he hit the curb. I have jumped curbs in my work truck at angle to get off the road and in a median out of traffic with zero problems. Most likely it was the type car and without a beefed up off road suspension. Chalk it up to young and inexperienced hopefully learn from this.
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It doesn't look like that big a deal to me. All those parts except the cv shaft can be got at a salvage yard. If you're not mechanically inclined you're probably just gonna have to pay somebody. But I don't see more than a couple of days work in the driveway there.
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look dude i do this for a living and see what it takes to total a car with 1200 miles on it out and a curb at 15-25 isnt gonna get it there. sorry |
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wheel isnt too big a deal surely they have a reconditioned at LKQ, they are closed so i couldnt check. sway bar link is 10.00 control arm is 198.00 for a genuine nissan part with ball joint. 143.00 at oreilly. a new monroe strut is 60 bucks from o reilly if it doesnt have ABS there is a knuckle at bee line auto salvage in wichita for 90 if it does euroasian auto in wichita has it for 65 i need a better pic of the subframe though. inner tie rod is 22 outer is 22 both through oreilly. just to give you an idea. |
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If that's the parts price they must be killing me on the labor
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I'm ready to just shut down and no longer give a **** about anything.
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Bud, you've gone above and beyond. You aren't a bad guy for letting him learn a life lesson here.
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does it really matter at this point?
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